‘The art of medicine and surgery’, National Archives blog, Jan 2016 – an interview about Crucial Interventions, as part of my stint as National Archives Writer of the Month.

‘Fresh cuts’, Nov 2015 – the first episode of Funhouse magazine’s podcast, in which I talk to Rachel Humphries about Crucial Interventions and why London is like an estate agent who spends too much time at the gym.

‘Between survival and wholeness’, Lancet, Nov 2015 – a reflection, prompted by the publication of Crucial Interventions, on my own experiences under the knife and the place of patients in the history of surgery.

‘Crucial Interventions’, Nov 2015 – a short film about Crucial Interventions, set in Wellcome Collection’s Reading Room.

‘The immortal coil’, London Review of Books, 21 March 2013 – an essay review of The Correspondence of Michael Faraday.

‘John Snow and cholera’, Sick City Project blog, 11 March 2013 – a keynote talk given at the John Snow bicentenary conference at the University of York, offering a new and richer way to think about Snow’s work on cholera in Soho.

Curiocity, 2013 – I wrote fragments on the Windmill Theatre and on medieval attempts to sneak into heaven for issues D and E.

‘The body in question’, Lancet, January 2012 – a review of William & Helen Bynum’s Great Discoveries in Medicine and Julie Anderson, Emm Barnes, and Emma Shackleton’s The Art of Medicine: Over 2000 Years of Medicine in Our Lives.

I’ve also written reference articles on various subjects for the Dictionary of Medical Biography, the Encyclopedia of Pestilences, Plagues and Pandemics, and the Scribner Library of Modern Europe: 1789-1914, and more than forty book reviews for scholarly journals like Isis, Medical History, Annals of Science, Social History of Medicine, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Ergonomics, the International Journal of Men’s Health, and Wellcome History.